How Long Will It Take For the Job Market To Fully Recover?

With the unemployment rate in the United States currently ticking upwards towards the 10% mark, many people are starting to ask the question - how long will it take for the jobless rate to fall back to pre-recession levels?

There is no easy way to predict this - there are so many different variables involved that trying to answer this question becomes a futile exercise.

However, one thing that we CAN do is look at past recessions in the United States and see how long it took the jobless rate to recover to pre-recession levels.

In this article, we'll be looking at four different recessions. They are: